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President Obama greets law enforcement officers before taking the stage to speak on ideas to reduce gun violence Monday in Minneapolis. He tried to channel a bipartisan sentiment similar to the message of a group of college presidents. (Associated Press)
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"My challenge to all of you today, and actually my plea to all of you … is help us speed up the rate of change," said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (Associated Press)
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News photographs that have been called into question, legitimately or not, for one reason or another, include that of President Obama shooting clay targets on the range at Camp David, Md., in early August to prove his gun-rights bona fides. (Associated Press)
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling stunned fellow Republicans on Monday, casting the tiebreaking vote in the state Senate for the Democrats' position, postponing voter-ID changes till 2014. (Associated Press)
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi address the media during a joint press conference after a meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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President Obama greets law enforcement officers after speaking on ideas to reduce gun violence on Feb. 4, 2013, at the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations in Minneapolis. (Associated Press)
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Picture: During the 2004 presidential election, a photo surfaced that appeared to show Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and actress Jane Fonda sitting next to each other at a Vietnam War protest rally. Circulated with an Associated Press logo and attached to what looked like an old newspaper article, the black-and-white photo quickly spread across the Internet, particularly among conservative blogs and websites. Both the image and its accompanying newspaper trappings were phony, created by combining two separate photographs — one of Mr. Kerry speaking at a 1971 anti-war rally, the other of Miss Fonda speaking at a 1972 rally.
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COMBO - This combination of two photos obtained from the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, shows, left, an Iranian technician holding a monkey that Iran claims rode an Iranian rocket into space, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, and right, an undated image of an Iranian technician holding a monkey which had been prepared to ride an Iranian rocket into space, in an undisclosed location in Iran. One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler released to media depicted the wrong monkey--with a distinctive mole over its right eye--but a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday that a primate really did fly into space and returned safely to Earth. (AP Photo/ ISNA, Borna Ghasemi, Mohammad Agah)
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A 2006 series of photographs taken by Lebanese freelance photographer and Reuters correspondent Adnan Hajj appeared to show multiple smoke plumes over Beirut following an Israeli attack and an Israeli fighter jet firing several ground attack missiles over Southern Lebanon. Controversy: Bloggers accused Mr. Hajj of doctoring both photos. Verdict: Fake. An internal Reuters investigation discovered that Mr. Hajj had added extra smoke plumes to the first photo and altered an image of an Israeli fighter dropping a single defensive flare in the second.
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President Bush listens to Nancy Jara read during a visit to the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans Headquarters Summer Reading Camp Friday, June 14, 2002, in Houston . The President during his visit said the terrorists who conducted the car bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi Pakistan " are radical killers" with no regard for human life. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Picture: A widely-circulated photo appeared to show President George W. Bush holding a picture book upside down while reading with children during a 2002 Houston school visit. Controversy: The photo gave visual ammunition to Mr. Bush’s detractors and political opponents, many of whom caricatured the president as, well, not so bright. Verdict: Fake. Comparison to an original Associated Press photograph shows that the book’s “upside-down†cover was digitally altered.
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**FILE** Opponents of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, demonstrate Jan. 30, 2013, in Albany, N.Y., as they sit in the audience as Dr. Nirav Shah, commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, testifies before a joint budget hearing on health and Medicaid. (Associated Press)
